Improvement in dough-kneading machines



EVELYN L. EDWARDS. Down-Mmmm MACHINE.

N.PETERS, PHOTO-LITHOGRAFNER. WASHINGTON. D. C.

UNrrignn STATES fPa'rnN'r @erica EVE-LYN L. EDWARDS, OF VINELAND, JERSEY.

IMPRQVEMENT 1N DoueHKNEAD-INGMACHINES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 186,7117, dated January 30, 1877 application filed April 8, 1876.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EvELYN L. EDWARDS, of Vineland, in the county of Cumberland and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Apparatus for Kneading Dough; and I do hereby declare the following to be a clear and exact description of the nature thereof, sufficient to enable others skilled in the art to which my invention appertains to fully understand, make, and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this specication, in which- Figure 1 is a side view of the apparatus embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a top or plan view thereof. Fig. 3 is an end view thereof. Fig. et is a longitudinal section in line a: .'10, Fig. 2. Fig. 5 is a transverse section in line y y, Fig. 2.

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said rollers being rendered adjustable relatively to requisite thicknesses of dough for bread, cakes, pies, 8vo. It also consists of an extended bearing for supporting a gear-wheel at an elevation, whereby the crank will not strike the table or article on which the apparatus is placed.

Referring to the drawings, A A' represent two uprights, each ofwhich is formed in sections a, a', and on the lower sections is mounted a roller, B, and on the upper sections a roller, C, the two rollers rotating in opposite directions by means of gearing D, to which power is communicated by a gearwheel, D', having connected to it a crank, D", for which purpose the upright A is extended sufficiently high to provide bearings for said wheel D', whereby the crank D may be rotated without striking the table or place on which the apparatus is rested or supported. The upperV sections a of the uprights are connected to vertical plates E, which are secured to the base of the apparatus, and slots b t are formed in the plates/,for the passage oi the bolts which connect the said plates E and sections a whereby said upper sections a may be raised and lowered, so that the upper roller may be moved nearer to, or farther from, the lower roller, and thus the two rollers may be adjusted relatively to thickness or consistency that the dough is required to be made foi purposes of bread, cakes, 811e. F represente a board or table, to the sides of one end o: which are secured guides Gr, which extend vertically and longitudinally, so as to be in serted between the sides ofthe rollers anc adjacent faces of the uprights A A', an( close the sides of the joints between the tw rollers, and also close the spaces d betweex the upper and lower sections of the uprights The raised dough will be out or otherwisl separated into pieces of desired size and heav ily pressed or flattened, by hand or otherwise on the board or 'table F, well iioured. Thi piece of dough, well floured, is now passe between the rollers, properly rotated, and a the dough will be pressed in opposite dire( tions by the two rotating rollers, it is eviden that as the rollers do not yield, owing to thei rigid bearings, the mass will be firmly com pressed and well mixed, and the bubbles rc moved therefrom. v

The lateral tendency of the dough is rf sisted by the guides Gr, whereby the doug cannot reach and clog` the journals of the rol ers, or enter between the rollers and upright: or escape through the spaces d.

In order that the parts may be washed c cleansed, as desired or necessary, the boar or table F will be made removable. For thi purpose the under side ofthe board is forme with guides or lugs e, which fit against th supports f f, and prevent lateral displacemer of the board, but which are readily detacl able from the supports. The ends of the boar adjacent to ythe rollers have down wardly-pm jecting lugs g, which engage with the su] ports f, for preventing longitudinal mov ments of the board, but which are r'adii detachable from the supports.

Having thusdeseribed my invention, what rollers B C and support A', of the extended claim as new, and desire to secure by Letsupport A for the gear-Wheel D and crank ars Patent, is D, substantially as and for the purpose set l. The dough-kneading 'rollers B C, mountforth.

d on separated sections a, a/ of uprghts A EVELYN L. EDWARDS. L', in combination with the slotted plates E, Witnesses: Jbstantially as and for the purpose set forth. CHARLES J. NOURSE,

2. The Combination, with dough-kneading LUCY S. NOURSVE. 

